The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Notes and Opinions.


people to keep the peace and not re-
sort to policy of retaliation.
KENTUCKY distillers have agreed to
suspend production for year. They
ought to suspend for all time.
The President saw a bear in the
Adirondacks. He will encounter some
thing more formidable than bears next
year.
THERE is one road that apparently
doesn't lead to Rome. 1t is the one
that DR.. McGlynn is travelling on
Puck.
THE absence of the European war;
cloud is explained by the fact that the
vacation season has pened.-Philadel-
phid Press.
THERE is nothing the matter with
the John Sherman brand of republican,
ism, but it is too truthful to suit the
tender-foots in politics. -Hartord Post.
THE Illinois legislature passed an
act making all trades where there is no
intention of delivery illegal, but there
will be trouble with its enforcement in
Chicago.
THAT pygmy politician, Frank Hat
ton, has reopened his warfare upon
Mr.. Blaine. 1t will probably be less
effective than the assault of fly upon
an elephant.
The New York Times reaches the
height of mugwumpian free-trade idiocy
in the declaration that " in some ways
slavery was more justifiable than pro-
lection. "-JOurnal.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS says the
post of honor in politics is in sitting on
the fence. Public opinion is making
barbed wire for these Indifferent citi-
zens.-NeW Orleans Picayune.
A MAN who will stop a two-dollar
paper, thinking to ruin the editor, must
have moral range of vision equal to
the area of the open end of a pork
barrel. Martbo'S Vineyard Herald.
INTERSTATE COMMISSIONER COOLEY
is acting as counsel in the celebrated
Palms will case at Lansing, Mich.
Section eleven of the commerce law
contains this sentence: "Said commits
sioners shall not engage in any other
Nttci Mt
THE republican legislative caucus in
New Hampshire nominated William E.
Chandler for United States senator, he
receiving one hundred eighteen votes to
twenty-four for General Marston. The
democrats have gone through the
empty form of nominating Harry Bing-
ham.
THE most important decision that has
been made by the supreme court of the
United States for long time is that
declaring the validity of the "driven
well patent. These wells are in use
all over the country, especially in the
West, and those who did not pay roy
atty to the patentee will have to settle.
REFERRING to the statement of the
mugwump New York Times that the
republicans are debarred from abiding
to the farce of elections in certain parts
of the South, because they did not
legislate to stop it when they had the
power, the Boston Advertiser peril
nently remarks that /" it never seems to
occur to the Times to suggest that the
democrats might stop it without legis-
| lation."
THE best way to I" solve the labor
problem " is to go to work steadily, let
whiskey alone, be economical, and let
it solve itself. If each man would go
in to establish an anti-poverty So
ciety of one member in the above
way the world would be great deal
happier and better, 1t is the lazy asses
who won't work, but expect others to
support them, who are raising the
trouble.-Ioledo Blade.
THE Washington Sunday Capital
says that the President is said to have
promised Acknowledgment tombstone
Jones of North Carolina that all the
flags taken from the Southern States
during the late war should be returned
at an early date. 1t is doubtful if the
President has any authority to act in
this matter without congressional sane
ton. But his subserviency to the ex-
confederates is plain enough.
THE southern stories about the con-
tentment of the co nred citizens with
their condition, their willingness that
the white bosses should vote for them,
their joy at the privilege of being good
democrats, are the same stories, little
changed and shaded, about the intense
satisfaction black and yellow people
had in being slaves and their pride and
happiness in being sold at auction
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The suggestion of Robert Il. Lincoln
for the republican presidential nomina-
ton seems to us quite useless. He is